Hello guys, My name is Armando and this my very first blog post here at IGN. Also, this is the first time I'm blogging. I've always wanted to try it but I was too busy to give a try. Now I'm willing to sit in front of the computer for a couple of hours to blog every week. Now that that's out of the way I'm going to tell you about how I started playing video games. This will be very short blog.

In 1999, I had just turned 5 years old and my parents threw me a party. All my family came to the party except my grandfather. I was totally devastated because my grandpa told me that he was going to surprise me with a gift on my birthday, The next day, my grandpa arrived at our apartment with my gift. He had just bought me an NES! He also bought me Super Mario Bros. That NES was the very first console I owned. I know that the N64 was out by the time I turned 5, but by that time I didn't even know that video games existed! My grandpa was also the one that bought me N64. I have to thank my grandpa for buying me my very first console and making me a gamer. Sadly, he passed away four years ago. But, without him I would never had gotten hooked on video games.

Well, that concludes my first blog post here at IGN, I hope I can post more blog entries soon.